Every Brothers in Arms game, ranked
All 2 Brothers in Arms games we hold, spanning 2005 to 2005: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 3,328 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (GamingPickz Score 7.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Brothers in Arms games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
- Xbox
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Brothers in Arms games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceBrothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 at a glance Released 2005 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 88% positive of 2,173 Critics 87/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 88% shrinks to 87.3 on 2,173 reviews, then blends with the 87 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 2
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Best for: A smaller game its players are unusually fond of
7.1GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceBrothers in Arms: Earned in Blood at a glance Released 2005 Studio Gearbox Software Player sentiment 87% positive of 1,155 Critics 84/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 87% shrinks to 86.2 on 1,155 reviews, then blends with the 84 critic aggregate, giving 7.1.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Brothers in Arms game we can score is Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 at 7.4. The lowest is Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood at 7.1, a 0.3-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 at $9.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Brothers in Arms entries on Steam:
- Playable: Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
- Unsupported: Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Brothers in Arms games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 2 |
| Xbox | 2 of 2 |
| Nintendo | 1 of 2 |
The Brothers in Arms series, game by game
Every Brothers in Arms game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2005
Based on a true story. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, where Sgt. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside. (Steam)
Plot
On June 6, 1944, Sergeant Matt Baker participates in the initial jump off , taking place hours before the Normandy landings . When their plane is hit by anti-aircraft fire, killing Private David Muzza, Baker is thrown from the plane and separated from his squad. After landing, Baker eventually manages to regroup with Staff Sergeant "Mac" Hassey, radioman Private First Class Kevin Leggett and Lieutenant Colonel Cole . (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator platform Metacritic . Philip Morton of Thunderbolt gave the game a perfect 10/10 rating and called it as "exactly what the genre needed". He praised the gameplay that he described as "honed to near-perfection". (Wikipedia)
- 2005
With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com). (Steam)
Plot
The story is essentially told as a "reflection" on the events that took place earlier, as Army historian Colonel S. L. A. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood received "generally favorable" for PC and Xbox, and "mixed or average" for PS2 reviews, according to review aggregator platform Metacritic . During the 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards , Earned in Blood received a nomination for " Outstanding Achievement in Story and Character Development ". ^ Edge staff (December 2005). (Wikipedia)
Brothers in Arms, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
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How Brothers in Arms stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Brothers in Arms games are there?
We hold 2 Brothers in Arms games in the catalogue, released between 2005 and 2005. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Brothers in Arms game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 rates highest at 7.4. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Brothers in Arms games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2005 to 2005. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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